40 Things to never throw away if you are a DIY-er

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40 Things to donate to Craft & Canvas 

to assist us in our efforts to reuse, recycle, reinvent, and redesign in our DIY crafting efforts.

1. Wine Corks

2. Metal bottle caps

3. Maps

4. Old Globes

5. Candle holders

6. Tins (altoids, holidays)

7. Tin Cans opened with a can opener

8. Sturdy cardboard boxes (not shipping boxes)

9. Egg Cartons

10. Wooden Boxes

11. Old button-down shirts (not torn) (for kids’ smocks)

12. Old cotton T-shirts (for rags)

13. Interior/exterior leftover paint

14. Interior/exterior empty paint cans

15. Mason jars, baby food jars, yogurt jars (all glass)

16. Bike wheels

17. Old neckties

18. Old belts

19. Old Silverware

20. Paint chips

21. Rubber Bands

22. Old Springs

23. Old Gears

24. 6-Pack Holders

25. Old Windows

26. Old Wood Shutters

27. Old Solid Wood Doors

28. Old wood ladders

29. Cardboard tubes from toilet paper, paper towel, gift wrap, and other items

30. Broken Crayons

31. Broken down pallets

32. Spare/old wood

33. Tree slices (from a limb with bark still on)

34. Wine bottles

35. Old craft supplies you no longer use

36. Inexpensive jewelry no longer worn

37. Leftover tile from home projects

38. Mismatched/solitary knee socks

39. Buttons

40. Used paint brushes with paint dried on them.

Check the calendar and other pages on the website to see what we do with these things. Join us. We love to recycle, re-use, re-purpose, redesign and upcycle.